sell off

How To Use sell off In A Sentence

• He treated the vast mineral wealth of his country as something for him to sell off to the highest international bidders.
• To keep the budget deficit down, the government proposed to sell off shares and property valued at around 1,000 million kroner.
• It is an utter disgrace to sell off our utilities to foreign companies for a short-term gain of capital. Times, Sunday Times
• Production will only resume if Nintendo can sell off a good proportion of its warehouse stock.
• The source of that class was the corrupt decision to sell off the state's assets (above all in energy and minerals) at giveaway prices and without open competition, in return for huge kickbacks.
• The announcement by the government that it is to sell off Victorian prisons and build nine new ones is welcome. Times, Sunday Times
• Even for an administration that takes perverse pride in sneering at the term "conservation," this latest news is a shocker: President Bush's 2007 budget includes an order to the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to sell off as much as 800,000 acres of national lands to generate money for public schools. For Sale: Your Hunting Heritage
• According to Mr Meghen, it is too early to say what sums will be realised from the plant sell off, but it's likely to yield millions of euro.
• Majors couldn't be bothered with marginal fields and were willing to sell off production.
• And Greenpeace has bought a field there to sell off in small plots (hence my landholding), making it hard for the authorities to arrange compulsory purchase. House Points: Police harrassment of photographers